Have you ever been to Sweden?
I can recommend it.
It’s much more interesting than Ikea.
Tour Guide English
This weekend, a tour guide asked me if I teach English for tourism.
I don’t.
But this afternoon I took a walking tour of Stockholm’s old town.
So let me teach you some useful vocabulary I heard on the tour in case you decide to visit Stockholm and want to learn about its past.
Useful Word #1 for Stockholm Tourists: Sewage
Definition: the stuff in your toilet
Example: In the Middle Ages, Stockholm’s sewage flowed down the streets like a river.
Useful Word #2 for Stockholm Tourists: to faint
Definition: to pass out
Example: Foreign visitors to Stockholm would often faint from the smell.
Useful Word #3 for Stockholm Tourists: Sex Worker
Definition: A Prostitute
Example: The city government forced sex workers to clean the sewage from the streets.
Useful Word #4 for Stockholm Tourists: Dump
Definition: to get rid of something you don’t want
Example: Stockholm’s sex workers dumped so much sewage and garbage into the sea that the island grew by .2 square kilometers, or 70 city blocks.
Who says history is boring?
This story is funny 😄
it’funny, Stocholm is also on my whish list, a want to see Vikings in old days .. Thanks for new words, they would be useful for a next trip
it’s very interesting story. Stocholm is also on my whish list for my future, as joining as felov member in Vig vilage
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Too bad you couldn’t get better information and history about beautiful Stockholm than this. Too bad the guide couldn’t give you better things to remember. Sorry for you.
I totally agree!
It’s funny, and I agree that History is wonderful. The two Nordic countries I’ ve been to are Denmark and Finland.
More than funny🤣
Hi Ryan,
it´s great that you can visit the beautiful northern Stockholm. Fortunately, the sewage end the bad smell there are a thing of the past. My doughter`s family lives there and they doesn´t complain about it.
Thanks for the fun story!
All of us we know that The Middle Ages wasn’t a very happy and clean period of the history, for many places in the world. So, words like sewage, to faint from the smell, sex workers describe very well things happened in these old times.
Interesting story. The new Stockholm, on the other hand, is clean, cultured and has a lot to offer a tourist.
I hated your comments about Stockholm. A lovely country, a modern city, even in Gamla Stan, a happy open minded people, only arrogancy can justify such criticism.
Tragic using/ abuse of women … example of men’s contemt to women and to sex too, avoiding responsibility. What did the men who were usying the prostituts? I am curious if the guide mentioned it? Repulsive is usying of women without consequences .. The guide felt the same repulsion to women ?? I really feel sorry for these women . Interesting is that now women in Sweden don’t want to have children … just coincidence .. hmm
I am Swedish and live about 50 miles north from Stockholm and I hardly believe that story. There is a lot of thing’s to experience and talk about in Stockholm beyond these topics.
Good evening!
So usefull🙏🏻
Sex worker was funny. But I didn’t get sewage and faint and dump, what is funny or unusual about these words in that context?
Interesting
Thanks
I have another opinions about STOCHOLM.
But i learn new words. Thank yuo